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Article: 1,444 PEOPLE IN BANTEN HAVE HIV/AIDS.

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July 1, 2009
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Serang, June 1 (ANTARA): A total of 1,444 people in Banten province were infected with HIV/AIDS, and the rest of the society had been called on to take early preventive measures, so that this virtually fatal disease would not affect others. "Fifty four of the 1,444 sufferers had succumbed to the disease," Chairman of the Banten Aids Prevention Commission (KPA) Arif Mulyawan said Wednesday. Arif added that the spread of HIV/AIDS in Banten had caused great alarm, and the extent of the spread is now seventh on the national list. Most of the disease is transmitted through the use of syringes over and over again by several people, and through what is now popularly known as ...

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